Every Saw Villain Ranked Worst To Best

Gordon crawls off into the darkness at the conclusion at the first Saw film, leaving hardcore fans with a major question: What the heck happens to him?

Finally, in Saw VII, AKA Saw: The Final Chapter, it is revealed that after escaping the bathroom, Dr. Gordon (Cary Elwes) had his wounds tended to by Jigsaw and was released back into the world. We go on to learn that while Jigsaw was grooming Amanda and Hoffman as tentative successors and inheritors of his legacy, he also kept Dr. Gordon around as an extra set of hands to aid him in his endeavors. Gordon, it turns out, not only assisted with the more medical traps of Saw II and Saw IV, he also helped Jigsaw choose the surgeon who operates on him in Saw III. Most importantly, at the conclusion of Saw VII, Gordon (along with two unknown assailants wearing pig masks) kidnaps Mark Hoffman and proceeds to lock him in the bathroom from the first film, bringing everything full circle.

In his brief time onscreen in Saw VII, Elwes succeeds at being suitably creepy, and even gets to close out the film with an iconic line: "Game over". It's a great twist, but it would have been greater still if only he'd gotten to be a focal point of the film, as opposed to an extended cameo.